Immunotherapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: F. Greten, Tim (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.

In this book we provide insights into liver – cancer and immunology. Experts in the field provide an overview over fundamental immunological questions in liver cancer and tumorimmunology, which form the base for immune based approaches in HCC, which gain increasing interest in the community due to f...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Vaccine approaches
• Spontaneous Immune responses to ablative therapies
• Antigen-specific T cell responses. Immune checkpoint inhibitors
• NASH and HCC
• Cytokine activated killer cells
• Sorafenib combination therapy
• Glypican 3
• Suppressor cells
• Cytokines in HCC pathogenesis and treatment
• Index.